MAGISTERIAL

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13335, 11 July 1907, Page 3

MAGISTERIAL

WAIMATK —WEDNESDAY JULY lC'th. J (Before Major Keddetf, S.-M.) * ALLEGED THEFT. Michael Young was charged with steal--inc a quantity of barbed wire and oJier material to the value of £3 3s, the property of David Stackpooli. Accused was proceeded against by fummon.". Jlr Moore applied for and his Worship granted an. adjournment , till that day weelc. v c ■ CIVIL CASES'. Judgment was given for the amounts claimed and cost'? in the following cases. _ —Wilkinson v. Wood, £4 3s 6d, costs 16s: iWaimate County Council v. J. Pec-bku, 9s 9d, costs ss; W. Ford v. P. Mclnernev, £3l 4s 4d, cofts £1 13s ; W. W. Scott v. F. Wills, £7 17s 4d costs 3Cs 6d; J. Fox v. J. Carhis, £5 2s Bd, costs. 15s 6d; R. W. Hutt v. Moore, £2 2s, costs 10s; Mrs Owen v. 1. liickey, £1 2s 6d, casts 8?. Priest- and Koldgate v. F. Harris, judgment summons. Order made for payment of £3 on 29th July, and the balance ol £3 os< 9d on August 29th. Waimat-e High School Boari. v. Ea\id Tavendale Mr Hamilton, for. plamtift, Air Ptrrv for defendant. In this cto* the defendant was fcrnr.rly a lessee. of a ris;rve from th-3 Board a-j Waihaorunga. - The lease was for 14 years, and during the defendant s tenacy 'th- r*nt hud been reduced -by the Board out of sympathy for defendants struggled with adverse conditions to £62 16s 4cl per aimum, payable half-yearly. When the lease was -expiring defendant applied for some further consideration- on account of improvements effected on the- property, and the Board agreed to remit the halfyear's rent due on condition that nothing was inU-rf.-rc-l with on the. farm. Subsequently defendant- pulled up and io.mowd certain dividing fences, and the Board therefore rescinded its resolution granting th-:- nbate and decided to compel payment of the rent. Tli* evidence of R. Armstrong, the ingoing lefis.ee, G. H. Graham, clerk to the High School Board, and J. C. Hurst, a, farmer in tlr- neighbourhood, was taken for the. plaintiffs. After hearing counsel's argument, his Worship gave judgment for the amount claimed. £3l 6s Bd, witnesses expenses £2 16s. solicitors fees £2 12s and costs of Court £1 14s.